Literary banquets cannot establish uniform practice throughout Greece. Claims that belief causes hallucination are not accepted as medical evidence.
A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), Greek symposium
The symposium supplies a model of deliberate drinking regulated by a host, shared dilution, toasts, conversation and social exclusion.
chap. 5, “The Greek Symposium”
chap. 5, “The Greek Symposium”
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Evidence
The symposium supplies a model of deliberate drinking regulated by a host, shared dilution, toasts, conversation and social exclusion.
Location and context
Forsyth, A Short History of Drunkenness (2017), chap. 5, “The Greek Symposium”. Original paraphrase, not quotation. The private PDF retrieval range is retained in Verification Notes.
Annotation
Literary banquets cannot establish uniform practice throughout Greece. Claims that belief causes hallucination are not accepted as medical evidence.
Verification
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